Posted on 05/30/2023 8:28:26 AM PDT by MtnClimber
In a recent American Thinker article, Are ‘White People Committed to Being Villains’?, Raymond Ibrahim addresses a very important issue: there is a societal movement to place the blame for the ills of society on white people and racism. The theory is that white people are evil because they are white. Ibrahim argues that when white people behaved as oppressors, it was because they had the power to do so, not because they were white. Per Ibrahim:
Europeans did not defeat and uproot American Indians, enslave Africans, and colonize the rest because whites lived according to some unprecedented bellicose creed innate to whites and alien to nonwhites. Quite the contrary: they did so because they — as opposed to natives, blacks, etc. — were able to do so. That is the fundamental difference.
It is about who has the power. In a perfect world, people in power could decide to be moral and good. Power does not automatically lead to abuse of others.
The problem is an innate depravity of men combined with power. Men are not basically good. Left to their own desires and wants, they will take what they want from others because taking things by power is easier than working for them. It is the purpose and value of religious and moral teaching throughout life to override that default setting and build a desire to be good.
That is the role of “the rule of law” in a successful society. When the rule of law breaks down, the natural depravity rules.
- When laws against theft are not enforced, and there is no punishment for stealing, then some people will steal.
- When society fails to enforce standards for moral behavior through law and other incentives, immorality thrives and the damage to society increases.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
All white people are the new Jews and the left is still the left.
Not according to prof fonda. 😂😂😂
I’ll be so glad when the Dims learn that God is a forgiving God and they don’t have to make themselves feel better by making us all feel guilty over what the Dims did to blacks before I was born.
“The theory is that white people are evil because they are white.”
A statement like that USED to be considered “racism”, but not any more; words no longer have defined meanings.
Humpty Dumpty on line 1...
Given enough time, demographic changes, and a shifting of the Overton Window, the Left is going to go for white genocide.
It nay be 5, 10, 50 years, or more, but make no mistake. That is the trajectory they are on and many leaders know it.
The issue is never the issue...
This is to weed out dissenters
Whites who bend the knee will be spared
Submit
OR ELSE!
Yeah, the scammers behind BLM (Buy Large Mansions) weren’t light skinned.
All you gotta do to disprove this thesis is look at any Democrat city where the administration has been completely taken over by “people of color”. Still corrupt.
That lie is a hilarious one.
I thought Haiti by the headline.
Anyone who thinks corruption is white-adjacent has no experience with the rest of the world.
Ping
Thats why the majority of folks in prison are black.(?)
Sounds like the kind of “theory” someone would come up with if they are totally ignorant of history, evidence and reason.
They are killing the goose that laid the golden egg.
The real question: who will be more likely to abuse whatever power they have?
Who is going on looting sprees in stores now?
It’s not that “power corrupts”.
It is “immunity from consequences” which truly corrupts.
Yes. Just look at the plight of the white farmers in South Africa.
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